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BATTLE OF LEXINGTON AND CONCORD
The battle of Lexington and concord was fought on April 19, 1775 in Middlesex County, Province of Massachusetts Bay, within the towns of Lexington, Concord, Lincoln, Menotomy, and Cambridge. This event is important in US history because they were the first military engagements of the American Revolutionary War. -
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BATTLE OF SARATOGA
The two Battles of Saratoga were fought eighteen days apart in the fall of 1777, these two battles were a turning point in the American Revolution. They were a turning point in the warand also important to US history because not only did it renew the morale of the American public, it also convinced potential foreign partners, such as France, that America could win the war, and that it would be best to send help to them.. -
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BATTLE OF YORKTOWN
The battle of Yorktown was a victory for general George Washington with the help of American Continental Army troops and and French Army troops led by the Comte de Rochambeau over a British Army commanded by Lieutenant General Charles Cornwallis. This event was important to US history because this was the battle that ended the American Revolutionary war. -
NORTHWEST ORDINANCE
The Northwest Ordinance was adopted on July 13, 1787 by the Second Continental Congress it chartered a government for the Northwest Territory. This Northwest Ordinance was important to US history because it provided a method for admitting new states to the Union from the territory, and it also listed a bill of rights that was guaranteed in the territory. -
Alien Enemies Act
The Alien Enemies Act was signed on on July 6, 1798 by John Adams. This act gave him the power to deport any alien living in the U.S. with ties to U.S. wartime enemies. This act was important to US history because it would have deported foreigners and also make it harder for new immigrants to vote. -
SEDITION ACTS
The Sedition Act was passed on July 14, 1798. It gave Adams power to define treasonable activity including any false, scandalous and malicious writing. The Alien act did not go into affect but the Sedition act did. This act was important to US history because -
VIRGINIA AND KENTUCKY RESOLUTIONS
The Virginia state legislature passed the Virginia and Kentucky resolutions on December 24, 1798. The Kentucky Resolutions of 1798 stated that the acts of the national government beyond the scope of its constitutional powers "are "unauthoritative, void, and of no force". It important to US history because these were political statements that were drafted in 1798 and 1799. The Kentucky and Virginia legislatures took the position that the Alien and Sedition Acts were unconstitutional. -
MARBURY V. MADISON
This case established the principle of judicial review. It also gave the federal courts the power to declare legislative and executive acts unconstitutional. This case was important to US history because it challenged a law that was passed by Congress and signed by the president. -
LOUISIANA PURCHASE
The Louisiana Purchase was a land deal between the United States and France. It allowed the U.S. to acquire approximately 827,000 square miles of land west of the Mississippi River for $15 million. This purchase was important to US history because it gave the U.S. control of the Mississippi River and the port city of New Orleans. Both of those were used by farmers to ship their crops and get paid for them. -
MISSOURI COMPROMISE
Congress passed a bill granting Missouri statehood as a slave state under the condition that slavery was to be forever prohibited in the rest of the Louisiana Purchase north of the 36th parallel. In an effort to preserve the balance of power in Congress between the slave and free states, the Missouri Compromise was passed in 1820 admitting Missouri as a slave state and Maine as a free state. This was important to US history because it was the day Missouri became a slave state. -
MONROE DOCTRINE
The Monroe Doctrine was a foreign policy statement, made in 1823 which stated that the United States would not interfere in the internal affairs of the wars between European powers the United States recognized and would not interfere with existing colonies and dependencies in the Western Hemisphere, the Western Hemisphere was closed to future colonization. This was important to history because the Monroe Doctrine was meant to stop European influence in the Americas which it did in some ways. -
NULLIFICATION CRISIS
The nullification crisis declared that the Tariffs of 1828 and 1832 were unconstitutional and unenforceable in South Carolina after February 1, 1833. This was important to US history because this was one of the major causes of the civil war -
TEXAS ANNEXATION
The Texas Annexation of 1845 was the annexation of the Republic of Texas into the United States of America, which was admitted to the Union as the 28th state on December 29, 1845. This Event was important to US history because it quickly led to the start of the war with Mexico in 1846. -
MEXICAN CESSION ( TREATY OF GUADALUPE HIDALGO)
This treaty recognized Texas as a U.S. state, and ceded a large chunk of land, about half the area that belonged to the Mexican republic was given to the United States for the cost of $15 million. This event was important to US history because this treaty established our Mexican-United States border in Texas at the Rio Grande River. Along with that we also got California, Utah, and Nevada from Mexico. -
OREGON TREATY
This treaty set the boundary between the United States and Canada at the 49th parallel west of the Rocky Mountains. This event was important to US history because the Oregon Treaty was one of the first successes of Manifest Destiny, it showed that the U.S. was willing to fight for the westward expansion. -
COMPROMISE OF 1850
In an attempt to seek a compromise and avert a crisis between North and South, Senator Henry Clay introduced a series of resolutions on January 29, 1850. The Fugitive Slave Act was amended and the slave trade in Washington, D.C., was abolished as part of the compromise. This was important to US history because Texas lost territory but was compensated with 10 million dollars to pay for its debt. Slave trade was prohibited in Washington DC, but slavery was not. -
KANSAS - NEBRASKA ACT
The Kansas Nebraska act allowed people in the territories of Kansas and Nebraska to decide for themselves whether or not to allow slavery within their borders. The act was made to repeal the Missouri Compromise of 1820 which prohibited slavery north of latitude 36°30'. This event was important to US history because it organized the remaining territory acquired in the Louisiana Purchase so that such territories could be admitted to the Union as states. -
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BATTLE OF FORT SUMTER
The battle of Fort Sumter was started by the Confederate troops when they bombarded Charleston, South Carolina. even though there was a return of gun fire by the United States army they surrendered, which made this event important to US history because it marked the start of the American Civil War. -
BLEEDING (BLOODY) KANSAS
Bleeding Kansas, also known as the border war was a series of violent civil confrontations in the United States between 1854 and 1861. This was important to US history because it was a conflict that was characterized by years of electoral fraud, raids, assaults, and retributive murders carried out by anti-slavery and pro-slavery in Kansas and neighboring Missouri. -
BATTLE OF BULL RUN
Two months after Confederate troops opened fire on Fort Sumter to begin the Civil War, the Northern press and the public were ready for the Union Army to make an advance on Richmond ahead of the planned meeting of the Confederate Congress there on July 20.This event was important to US history because this was the first major land battle of the American Civil War armies in Virginia. -
BATTLE OF ANTIETAM
The American Civil War, fought between Confed. General Robert E. Lee's Army of Northern Virginia and Union General George B. McClellan's Army of the Potomac, near Sharpsburg, Maryland and Antietam Creek was the bloodiest day in United States history, with a total of 22,717 dead. This event was important to US history because not only was it the bloodiest day in history it also resulted in President Lincoln issuing his Preliminary Emancipation Proclamation on September 22, 1862. -
EMANCIPATION PROCLAMATION
On January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states " "shall be free." This document was already signed by Abraham Lincoln September 22 1862. The purpose of the Emancipation Proclamation was to encourage rebellious states to rejoin the Union. This event was important to the US history because it led the way to total abolition of slavery in the United States. -
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BATTLE OF VICKSBURG
The Siege of Vicksburg was the final major military action in the Vicksburg Campaign of the American Civil War. With Vicksburg being the last major Confederate stronghold on the Mississippi River; capturing it completed the second part of the Northern strategy,also known as the Anaconda Plan. This event was important to US history because this victory gave them control of the Mississippi River and it split the states of the Confederacy. -
BATTLE OF GETTYSBURG
The Battle of Gettysburg was fought July 1–3. in the town of Gettysburg, by Union and Confederate forces during the American Civil War. The battle involved the largest number of 46,286 casualties of the entire war and is described as the wars turning point. This was important to US history because it was a Union victory that stopped Confed. Gen. Robert E. Lee's 2nd invasion of the North. 50,000+ men fell dead on the 3rd day, making it the bloodiest battle of the American Civil War -
GETTYSBURG ADDRESS
The Gettysburg Address was a speech that the U.S. President Abraham Lincoln delivered during the American Civil War at the dedication of the Soldiers' National Cemetery in Gettysburg, Pennsylvania on November 19, 1863, four and a half months after the Union armies defeated those of the Confederacy at the Battle of Gettysburg. this event was important to the US history because Lincoln’s 273-word address would be remembered as one of the most important speeches in American history. -
13th AMENDMENT PASSED
Passed by Congress on January 31, 1865 and ratified on December 6, 1865 the 13th amendment abolished slavery in the United States. The 13th amendment formally abolished slavery in the United States, passed the Senate on April 8, 1864, and the House on January 31, 1865. This was important to US history because it abolished slavery in the US. -
14th AMENDMENT PASSED
The amendment grants citizenship to "all persons born or naturalized in the United States" which included former slaves who had just been freed after the Civil War. This was important in US history because It basically gave African Americans citizenship in the US. -
15th AMENDMENT PASSED
Ratified on February 3, 1870, the 15th amendment granted African American men the right to vote. This was important to US history because African American men could finally vote. -
PLESSY V. FERGUSON
It upheld the constitutionality of racial segregation laws for public facilities as long as the segregated facilities were equal in quality. It was a doctrine that became known as "separate but equal", meaning we could be equal but we had to stay separate.